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These idees fixes roil about in his brain and sprawl over page after page, until Percy decides to wrap it all together in one crystal-clear passage...
These idees fixes roil about in his brain and sprawl over page after page, until Percy decides to wrap it all together in one crystal-clear passage...
Last week thousands of shirtsleeved Chinese patiently queued up in the broiling Peking sun to visit the pagoda-like structure on Tian'anmen Square that contains the earthly remains of Mao Tse-tung. Inside the air-conditioned mausoleum they divided into two columns and filed past the crystal case in which the embalmed body of the Great Helmsman reposes under a coverlet of red satin...
...Cyrus the Great, and the Shah of Iran had decided to throw a party that would dazzle even the most jaded of his guests: Kings and Queens, Presidents and Premiers, sheiks and sultans. More than $100 million was spent on tents lined with silk and furnished with Baccarat crystal and Porthault linens, banquets laden with roast peacock stuffed with foie gras, magnums of Château Lafite-Rothschild...
When Walter Reuther, the late president of the United Auto Workers, spoke of the automobile as the "Fifth Freedom," he was not referring to the electric car. Dowdy, slow, limited in range and sometimes adorned-in its first incarnation around the turn of the century-with crystal vases and plush cushions, Grandma's old electric had all the sex appeal of a limp handshake. Henry Ford's flivvers and gushers of cheap Texas oil eventually drove electric vehicles off the American road and onto the American golf course, where most of them...